This is what Shaya1 the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of YAHWEH’s House shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be raised above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
3Many peoples shall go and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of YAHWEH,2
To the House of the God3 of Yaqub;
And he will teach us of his ways,
And we will walk in his paths.”
For out of Al-Quds4 the Taurat5 shall go forth,
And the Word of YAHWEH from Jerusalem.
4He will judge between the nations,
And will decide concerning many peoples;
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning-hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war any more.
5House of Yaqub, come, and let us walk in the light of YAHWEH.
6For you have forsaken your people, the house of Yaqub,
Because they are filled from the east,
With those who practice divination like the Philistines,
And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
7Their land is full of silver and gold,
Neither is there any end of their treasures.
Their land also is full of horses,
Neither is there any end of their chariots.
8Their land also is full of idols.
They worship the work of their own hands,
That which their own fingers have made.
9Man is brought low,
And mankind is humbled;
Therefore do not forgive them.
10Enter into the rock,
And hide in the dust,
From before the terror of YAHWEH,
And from the glory of his majesty.
11The lofty looks of man will be brought low,
The haughtiness of men will be bowed down,
And YAHWEH alone will be exalted in that day.
12For there will be a day of YAHWEH All-Powerful for all that is proud and haughty,
And for all that is lifted up;
And it shall be brought low:
13For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,
For all the oaks of Bashan,
14For all the high mountains,
For all the hills that are lifted up,
15For every lofty tower,
For every fortified wall,
16For all the ships of Tarshish,
And for all pleasant imagery.
17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
And YAHWEH alone shall be exalted in that day.
18The idols shall utterly pass away.
19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks,
And into the holes of the earth,
From before the terror of YAHWEH,
And from the glory of his majesty,
When he arises to shake the earth mightily.
20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver,
And their idols of gold,
Which have been made for themselves to worship,
To the moles and to the bats;
21To go into the caverns of the rocks,
And into the clefts of the ragged rocks,
From before the terror of YAHWEH,
And from the glory of his majesty,
When he arises to shake the earth mightily.
22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
For of what account is he?
- 2:1 Shaya, this Arabic name is derived from the Hebrew name Isaiah, which means “YAHWEH is salvation.” ↩︎
- 2:3 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 2:3 God, in Hebrew elohim, which is related to the Arabic allah. Both words translate correctly as “God,” referring to the one true God. ↩︎
- 2:3 Al-Quds, meaning “the Holy (City).” The Hebrew text reads Zion, a synonym for Jerusalem. It originally referred to Mount Zion, one of the hills of Jerusalem. ↩︎
- 2:3 Taurat, this Arabic term is derived from the Hebrew word Torah, which means “instruction” or “teaching.” Depending on context, Taurat can refer to,
1. The whole Hebrew Bible contained here under the title Taurat, equivalent to what Jews today call Tanakh, and what Christians call the Old Testament.
2. The revelation given to Prophet Musa, that is, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes called the Pentateuch. Pentateuch is a Greek word meaning “five books” and includes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. These five books are attributed to Prophet Musa himself. This is the traditional and most common meaning given to Taurat or Torah.
3. The Law of Musa found within the Pentateuch, with its hundreds of rules and regulations covering many aspects of daily life for the people of Israel. The most famous of these laws are the Ten Commandments, found in Exodus 20.
4. Taurat can also refer to divine instruction and teaching in general without reference to a particular book of the Hebrew Bible. ↩︎